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Download full textLesgold, Alan M. – 1974
Studies of the effects of imagery instructions and other imagery induction on prose learning are included in this progress report. Five experiments were conducted to establish a developmental trend for ability to use imagery-related mediation in whole passage learning. Observations indicate that six year olds are inhibited in paraphrase recall of…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Imagery, Learning, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedSlak, Stefan – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Consonants, Language Patterns, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Danner, Fred W.; Taylor, Arthur M. – 1971
The study was designed to developmentally assess the effect of relational imagery training, unitized pictorial relations, and the combination of both on the recall of noun triplets by 120 first, third and sixth graders. In the unitized picture condition, relations were imposed by the experimenter, whereas the relational imagery training condition…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Children, Imagery
Christ, Richard E. – J Gen Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Decision Making, Learning Processes, Memory
Peer reviewedDerevensky, Jeffrey – Journal of Experimental Education, 1976
Sixty kindergarten, sixty second grade, and sixty fourth grade students performed several memory tasks under one of six conditions. The conditions differed as to the method of presentation of information. The study focused on developmental changes in children's use of verbal, nonverbal, and spatial-positional cues for memory. (Editor)
Descriptors: Cues, Educational Research, Elementary School Students, Learning Processes
Means, Barbara M.; Rohwer, William D., Jr. – 1976
To assess the importance of visual attributes relative to acoustic and semantic attributes in children's encoding, a 64-item recognition test was administered to first- and sixth-grade children. Recognition items were linedrawings of simple objects accompanied by aural labels. By manipulating the picture, label, and referent in various…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Aural Learning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Chalfant, James C.; Scheffelin, Margaret A. – 1969
Research on central processing dysfunctions in children is reviewed in three major areas. The first, dysfunctions in the analysis of sensory information, includes auditory, visual, and haptic processing. The second, dysfunction in the synthesis of sensory information, covers multiple stimulus integration and short-term memory. The third area of…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Exceptional Child Research, Information Processing, Language Acquisition
Cole, Michael; And Others – 1971
After intensively studying for several years the thinking processes of members of a tribal group in Western Africa, the Kpelle, the authors examine the relation between culture and cognitive development. The following issues are discussed: (1) an analysis of the terms "culture" and "cognition"; (2) an ethnographic description of the Kpelle…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Associative Learning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
